Were we wrong about Bill Gates?

Do you remember those flash games that you beat the shit out of Bill Gates photo? Yes? Ow you are that old? Well it was a time that everyone was cursing Bill Gates for all the troubles with windows. Yes, there were problems, but you have to ask yourself is windows really better now that Bill is more concerned about the earth (which is also great!) than the software? Not really.

 When I see windows history I see a COVID-19 chart:

Some may argue that Windows 98 belongs that high on the chart, but like the virus it was small, fast and effective. It has beveled shapes that give you a 3D feeling which windows 10 does not have. And it's bigger deal than you might think it is. When I first looked at windows 98 I can immediately use it. I know what's a button, whats a text and what's an image. You can clearly see if a checkbox is checked and which text is the description for that check box. With windows 10 none of these are valid:

You don't know if a checkbox is ticked. Is left ticked or right - not sure? Is blue ticked or  white? I would bet my money on blue, but still confusing. So how do they solve the problem they just created? They put a text to show if the "check box" is ticked. And is this really a checkbox or it's some kind of indicator or just an image? No one can tell. Is peek to preview on or off? Which check box is for "Peek to preview"? How do you tell - you go to the first check box and you check if the text is on top or on the bottom of the checkbox. Then you scroll back to the setting you want to change and you forget it....

Now look at this one:

WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THAT??? Why did you have to change it? It's a bit small for today's monitors - so make it bigger.

1. It's absolutely clear if the checkbox is checked
2. You could never make a mistake which description for which checkbox is
3. there was a hot key for each checkbox - alt-f for the one above - Yes, not many people use that one because these days people mostly play with their computers (even when they are working). If you really want to be effective, you use hotkeys

Let's have a look at a typical window in windows 10:

What do you think is on the left - a list of things? But why are they there? What's their purpose? The little blue line next to "Taskbar" is supposed to tell me this one is selected. I would have never guessed that if I saw this so called "window" for the first time in my life. Are these tabs? Where does one tab end and where does the other begin - you don't know until you put your mouse over it. Very cleaver - make sure to confuse the use more. One would ask is there a better way to display tabs? I don't know. Maybe this:

Yes, yes, I know it's ugly. You can design it better and yet, non-confusing. And if we are talking about ugliness the windows 10 variant is way uglier.

Ow I almost forgot - you want to move the window. Where do you pick it in order to drag it? The title bar? Where is it? Well, up to windows 7 you knew where it is. Now you don't. 

And why does windows need 45 GB for something that doesn't even have third dimension?

... if you subtract the swapfile hibernation file 45GB is taken by the OS. That's insane? That's before the any additional software installed. You'll say "windows now has all drivers built in". Well, so does linux, but still  fits in 5 to 10 GB ..

Yes, if you never touch settings, don't use internet explorer and start menu Windows 10 is just like any other windows, just a bit uglier, but that one time you need to change a setting will ruin you whole day. Also looking at ugly screen all day doesn't make it any better. Yes, XP was a bit too "loudly screaming" design, but at least it was contrast, with big icons and intuitive. One look is enough for you to know what's on screen - no decoding needed.

And I'm not even talking about updates and forcing you to login in microsoft account and send ton of information to microsoft yet ... But I will!

What do I hear? Why don't I switch to linux? Linux is the greatest ... server os, but it's not great for desktop. Plus let's be honest - the GUI software for linux sucks.

Now is the time we apologize to Bill - he was actually doing OK job with windows. It can get much, much worse

So Bill, please, kindly ask the guys that made that mess to go around blogs and Youtube and read/watch people opinions on what a show stopper windows 10 is.